“Younger means more time to work” ... 24-year-old youngest Jinju city council candidate, senior university student Choi Ji-won

Choi Ji-won, the youngest candidate in the Jinju City Council election, is conducting street campaigns with friends and senior and junior campaign workers.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporters Kim Yong-woo and Choi Soon-kyung] #. From early dawn until late at night, ultra-young stamina shows no sign of resting. I will open a new 30 years for Jinju. (Choi Ji-won, Jinju City Council Candidate, SNS)

His campaign, posted on Instagram and Facebook to show young energy, is an endurance battle that never tires. Not only on SNS, but he saves time by carrying the microphone and speaker as one and runs up steep neighborhood stairs.

He rummages through villages and market corners, often hearing “You’re here again.” A single handshake or handing out one more business card is already exhausting, but when he sees a blood donation center, he always stops by.

No matter how busy the campaign schedule is, he never forgets to ‘greet’ neighborhood dogs. Even though the dog he likes very much is unlikely to give him a vote.

Candidate Choi does not just pass by when he meets a dog while campaigning.

Choi Ji-won (24), who challenged the Jinju City Council B electoral district in Gyeongnam, defeated experienced party members and caused a stir by confirming her candidacy as the youngest candidate from the Democratic Party of Korea, is attracting attention with her guerrilla campaign.

A third-year student in the Department of Art Education at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju has left her studio and is now painting the ‘election’ using her neighborhood as a canvas. The small personal studio she prepared for art study has now turned into an election campaign office.

Candidate Choi decided to focus solely on filling the parts that established local politics have failed to capture with a young perspective. This is her motivation for running.

Choi said, “Local councils are far from meeting the expectations of youth,” and added, “I plan to directly address issues such as local youth, blind spots for the elderly, marginalized multicultural families, North Korean defectors, and environmental protection?areas my mother has been working on?as a local politician.”

She appealed, “Since I am the youngest, I have more time ahead to meet them. Although Jinju is a conservative stronghold city, please nurture a young Jinju politician who runs hard and listens for tomorrow starting now.”

Two days before D-Day, on the morning of the 30th, after campaigning at Seonhak Intersection in Jinju, she immediately started a ‘guerrilla campaign’ by carrying a speaker and moving around. She said she would run around until evening and then hold a glow-stick picketing campaign at dusk.

Candidate Choi organized eight campaign workers mostly from her friends and appointed her mother as the office manager. Two direct relatives, her civil servant father and maternal grandmother, took part as campaign workers. To significantly reduce rental and driver expenses for the campaign vehicle, she used her own compact car instead of a 1-ton truck, creating a frugal campaign system typical of a university student.

However, the cute campaign car coated and decorated for the compact car was parked that day as well, and she took the microphone and speaker and went out into the streets.